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Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Cardinal Sarah & false friends of tradition

On 29 March, Cardinal Robert Sarah,
Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of
the Sacraments, delivered an address at a conference commemorating the
10th anniversary of Summorum Pontificum.

Neo-Catholic and faux “traditionalist” media outlets alike (if you’ll
pardon the redundancy) are sure to use the occasion to once again sing
the Cardinal’s praises; as if he is a beacon of hope piercing the
modernist fog that presently engulfs Rome.

Most of us already know who the neo-Catholic players are, but the faux traditionalists can be a little more difficult to spot.
Difficult; not impossible.
Their treatment of Cardinal Sarah is always revealing in that it
makes plain the degree to which they truly grasp the diabolical nature
of both the Second Vatican Council and the Novus Ordo Missae; apart from which no claim to “traditionalism” can be taken seriously.
In short, you can rest assured that wherever one finds Cardinal Sarah being praised for his orthodoxy, or congratulated for standing firmly against liturgical and doctrinal innovations; there, tradition does not truly live.
(Thanks to a kind reader, S.B., for forwarding quotes to this extent
from just such a “faux traditional” outlet that I prefer not to name.)
Returning now to Cardinal Sarah’s most recent address, he began his talk:

As you know, what was called “the
liturgical movement” in the early twentieth century was the intention of
Pope Saint Pius X, expressed in another Motu proprio entitled Tra le sollicitudini
(1903), to restore the liturgy so as to make its treasures more
accessible, so that it might also become again the source of
authentically Christian life. Hence the definition of the liturgy as
“summit and source of the life and mission of the Church” found in the
Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy Sacrosanctum Concilium of Vatican Council II (see n. 10).

How dare Cardinal Sarah suggest for even a moment that the
unprecedented liturgical devastation following Vatican Council II can in
any way be traced back to the magisterium of Pope St. Pius X!
This alone tells us all that we need to know about Sarah’s relationship with tradition.
I would encourage anyone who has yet to do so to read the aforementioned Motu Proprio in its entirety. Those who do will find that neither Sacrosanctum Concilium nor the Novus Ordo Missae find any quarter whatsoever in the words of the saintly pope.
And yet, Cardinal Sarah calls the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy
of Vatican II “one of the finest fruits” of the “liturgical movement
initiated by Pope Saint Pius X.”
Nonsense!
I won’t rehash covered ground, but would invite those interested in
reading (or re-reading as the case may be) an examination of the
Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy and its contribution to the present
liturgical disaster that was originally posted HERE.
The Prefect went on to insist upon the novel idea of an “ordinary”
and an “extraordinary” form of the one Roman Rite that was invented by
Benedict the Abdicator:

Thus, presently, in the Roman or Latin
rite, two missals are in force: that of Blessed Pope Paul VI, the third
edition of which is dated 2002, and that of Saint Pius V, the last
edition of which, promulgated by Saint John XXIII, goes back to 1962 …
the two Forms of the usage of the Roman rite can be mutually enriching…

Blessed Pope Paul VI. Saint John XXIII.

A theme is developing… (HINT: Men of the Council: Good. Men of tradition: BAD.)
At one point, Cardinal Sarah states:

I vehemently refuse therefore to waste
our time pitting one liturgy against another, or the Missal of Saint
Pius V against that of Blessed Paul VI.

Pitting one liturgy against another, you know… like those bad men Cardinal Ottaviani, Cardinal Bacci, and Archbishop Lefebvre.
The idea that Cardinal Sarah stands firm against doctrinal and liturgical innovation is patently absurd.
The Prefect goes on:

It is also very important to emphasize the continuity between the two missals…

Yes, so much “continuity” that a 1950’s era Catholic, if dropped into a “reverent” Novus Ordo, would be absolutely positive that he was witnessing a protestant service.

It is also very important to emphasize
the continuity between the two missals by appropriate liturgical
catechesis… this mystical and spiritual renewal that is therefore
missionary in character, which was intended by the Second Vatican
Council, to which Pope Francis is vigorously calling us.

This is the same “Pope Francis” who on multiple occasions has
condemned the work of seeking coverts (so much for missionary character)
and who also vigorously called Cardinal Sarah to the carpet; ordering him to knock it off with all that ad orientem talk.
Clearly, Cardinal Sarah got the message loud and clear, and it is
plain for all to see precisely where his priorities lie; namely, in
finding favor with the Modernist in Chief.
There is much in Cardinal Sarah’s address that rightly applies to the sacred liturgy generally speaking; i.e., to the Traditional Roman Rite, but the soundbites don’t tell the whole story.
The premise of his talk is that the Novus Ordo is a
liturgical treasure, the luster of which is sullied only to the extent
that one lacks knowledge of just how magnificent it truly is.
While ignorance of things liturgical can hamper one’s ability to
enter deeply into the sacred mysteries, what Cardinal Sarah is promoting
is a form of liturgical Gnosticism wherein the principle lex orandi, lex credendi is turned on its head.
This, he makes explicit when he paraphrases Cardinal Ratzinger:

The crisis of the weakening of the faith
comes in large measure from the way in which we treat the liturgy,
according to the old adage: lex orandi, lex credendi (the law of faith is the law of prayer).

This is exactly backwards.
In reality, the weakening of faith that characterizes the post-conciliar period came in large measure from the way in which the new liturgy treated the people by allowing, if not explicitly cultivating, a protestant mindset and theology that is utterly foreign to the Mass.
[For specific examples, consider the so-called Mass of Christian Burial according to the Roman Missal.]
Cardinal Sarah is unwilling to address this particular elephant in the sacristy. He says:

The Eucharist is not a sort of “dinner
among friends”, a convivial meal of the community, but rather a sacred
Mystery, the great Mystery of our faith, the celebration of the
Redemption accomplished by Our Lord Jesus Christ, the commemoration of
the death of Jesus on the cross to free us from our sins.

This is all well and good, but hold your applause:
Nowhere does Cardinal Sarah acknowledge the fact that the Novus Ordo rite
itself is flawed; so much so that those who approach the New Mass as if
it is a “convivial meal” will find plenty in the rite to confirm their
protestant ideas.
What’s more, it is my experience that many, even most, daily Novus Ordo attendees have no idea what the Mass truly is. It’s not because they are stupid; it’s because the rite is failing them.
If the Sarah approach is followed, at best those who bring a Catholic understanding of Holy Mass to the Novus Ordo will be left to force their knowledge upon the proceedings in spite of its mixed messages and deviations.
And let me be clear: I’m not talking about liturgical abuses, but rather the rite celebrated “by the book.”
You may read the rest of Cardinal Sarah’s address for yourself if you so care.
Whatever you do though, don’t be tricked into supporting those in
Catholic media who are pleased to place Cardinal Sarah on a pedestal as
neither one is a true friend of tradition.

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Go forth confidently then, you knights, and repel the foes of the cross of Christ with a stalwart heart. Know that neither death nor life can separate you from the love of God which is in Jesus Christ, and in every peril repeat, "Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's." What a glory to return in victory from such a battle! How blessed to die there as a martyr! Rejoice, brave athlete, if you live and conquer in the Lord; but glory and exult even more if you die and join your Lord. Life indeed is a fruitful thing and victory is glorious, but a holy death is more important than either. If they are blessed who die in the Lord, how much more are they who die for the Lord!

How secure, I say, is life when death is anticipated without fear; or rather when it is desired with feeling and embraced with reverence! How holy and secure this knighthood and how entirely free of the double risk run by those men who fight not for Christ! Whenever you go forth, O worldly warrior, you must fear lest the bodily death of your foe should mean your own spiritual death, or lest perhaps your body and soul together should be slain by him.

Indeed, danger or victory for a Christian depends on the dispositions of his heart and not on the fortunes of war. If he fights for a good reason, the issue of his fight can never be evil; and likewise the results can never be considered good if the reason were evil and the intentions perverse. If you happen to be killed while you are seeking only to kill another, you die a murderer. If you succeed, and by your will to overcome and to conquer you perchance kill a man, you live a murderer. Now it will not do to be a murderer, living or dead, victorious or vanquished. What an unhappy victory--to have conquered a man while yielding to vice, and to indulge in an empty glory at his fall when wrath and pride have gotten the better of you!

But what of those who kill neither in the heat of revenge nor in the swelling of pride, but simply in order to save themselves? Even this sort of victory I would not call good, since bodily death is really a lesser evil than spiritual death. The soul need not die when the body does. No, it is the soul which sins that shall die.

The knight of Christ, I say, may strike with confidence and die yet more confidently, for he serves Christ when he strikes, and serves himself when he falls. Neither does he bear the sword in vain, for he is God's minister, for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of the good. If he kills an evildoer, he is not a mankiller, but, if I may so put it, a killer of evil. He is evidently the avenger of Christ towards evildoers and he is rightly considered a defender of Christians. Should he be killed himself, we know that he has not perished, but has come safely into port.

Once he finds himself in the thick of battle, this knight sets aside his previous gentleness, as if to say, "Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord; am I not disgusted with your enemies?" These men at once fall violently upon the foe, regarding them as so many sheep. No matter how outnumbered they are, they never regard these as fierce barbarians or as awe-inspiring hordes. Nor do they presume on their own strength, but trust in the Lord of armies to grant them the victory.

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"May God console you! ... What saddens you ... is the fact that others have occupied the churches by violence, while during this time you are on the outside. It is a fact that they have the premises – but you have the Apostolic Faith. They can occupy our churches, but they are outside the true Faith. You remain outside the places of worship, but the Faith dwells within you. Let us consider: what is more important, the place or the Faith?The true Faith, obviously. Who has lost and who has won in the struggle – the one who keeps the premises or the one who keeps the Faith? True, the premises are good when the Apostolic Faith is preached there; they are holy if everything takes place there in a holy way ..."You are the ones who are happy; you who remain within the Church by your Faith, who hold firmly to the foundations of the Faith which has come down to you from Apostolic Tradition. And if an execrable jealousy has tried to shake it on a number of occasions, it has not succeeded. They are the ones who have broken away from it in the present crisis. No one, ever, will prevail against your Faith, beloved Brothers. And we believe that God will give us our churches back some day. "Thus, the more violently they try to occupy the places of worship, the more they separate themselves from the Church. They claim that they represent the Church; but in reality, they are the ones who are expelling themselves from it and going astray. Even if Catholics faithful to Tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ."